KANDAHAR, April 30: Taliban militants have torched a school in restive southern Afghanistan in the latest attack on the education system, police said on Sunday. The incident in Ghazni province comes after seven schoolchildren were killed and several others wounded in a suspected Taliban rocket attack in the eastern province of Kunar three weeks ago.

“Taliban have torched and destroyed a school in Muqur district of Ghazni province,” provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told AFP.

The attack was the latest in a string of strikes against educational institutes, schools, teachers and in some cases students in southern and eastern Afghanistan, where the Taliban are most active.

Sarjang said a hunt was under way for the attackers, with Taliban also targeting government officials and troops in the area in the past.—AFP